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Political fraud: Benazir

Nirupama Subramanian

ISLAMABAD: Benazir Bhutto, chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, has said President Pervez Musharraf could not be re-elected as he had never been elected in the first instance but had only had his presidency through referendum endorsed by Parliament. In a press statement, Ms. Bhutto, who lives in self-exile in London and Dubai, said declarations that Gen. Musharraf could be elected for a second term through the existing Assemblies amounted to "game playing" with the Constitution. "The so-called election of Musharraf by the existing Assemblies would not only be malafide but also a monumental political fraud, the convoluted interpretation of the Constitution by so-called experts notwithstanding," she said. She said he "must abide by the letter and spirit of the Constitution and stop playing games with the country's basic law if the country is to be saved from plunging into yet another grave political and constitutional crisis."

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